Repetition of same note

[bradhurley]

@Cron-Z

Just to chime-in on this. Unlike the “classical” school of wind-instruments, in ITM/Celtic/Traditional you don’t tongue for articulation. Tonguing can be used as an ornament of sorts or “down-beat emphasis/attack” as mentioned by StevieJ. Articulation on the whistle or simple system flute is to be done with fingers (“Finger articulation”).

Not to confuse you further in your transition from classical to traditional, but this isn’t true. I could point you to dozens if not hundreds of recordings of traditional whistle players who articulate using tonguing (or glottal stops) and not exclusively with the fingers.

@Cron-Z

It helped when I started thinking of those who play the pipes - they can’t tongue repeated notes .

Right, but when you listen to uilleann pipers you will see that they have the ability to stop the chanter between notes, an effect that on the whistle can only be imitated by tonguing or glottal stopping – you can’t stop the sound with your fingers on a whistle the way you can on an uilleann pipes chanter.

It is possible to play the whistle using exclusively finger articulation, and some great whistle players do/did it, but many good players use finger articulation in combination with articulation achieved by tonguing and/or glottal stopping. Have a listen to Willie Clancy here:

http://www.rogermillington.com/tunetoc/maidonthegreen.html

Tell me that was all done with finger articulation! There is plenty of finger articulation, but quite a bit of tonguing (or possibly glottal stops, it’s not always easy to tell the difference) to separate notes as well.

[bradhurley]

Here’s another good example from Joe Bane:

http://www.rogermillington.com/tunetoc/shandonbells.html

There are repeating low Ds in the A part that he separates with glottal stops, and there are repeating As in the B part that he separates with cuts. So this is a good example of using both techniques in the same tune: breath articulation and finger articulation.

[Cron-Z]

Hai! Thanks for the clarification Brad.

[Finnian01]

agreed, thanks for all the advice everyone. struggled at first, but like anything else it took practice and i’m on my way. looking forward to the future!!